Ground meats are perfect for adding to countless recipes. They have a perfect texture, and because they are ground up, they are easy to add to all kinds of recipes like chillis, sandwiches, and pies.
Of course, there are many popular variations of ground meat, like ground beef or ground turkey, but easily one of the best to try out is ground lamb.
Ground lamb has all of the great and rich flavors you’ve come to expect from lamb, but comes in a form that is much easier to put to good use in your recipes.
Have you recently grabbed some ground lamb, and now you want to know some of the best recipes you can use it in to make your mouth water(see also: Best 12 Chicken Leg Recipes That Will Make Your Mouth Water)?
Then you have come to the perfect place. Today, we are going to take you through 10 of the very best recipes on the internet that make full use of ground lamb.
Read on to get started now!
1. Greek Lamb Tacos
Ground meat is perfect for use in tacos because of its texture and its compact nature. However, normally, taco recipes make use of ground beef in order to get the perfect flavor.
Luckily, with this recipe, you can make the absolute most out of ground lamb and bring out its latent flavors while also creating a unique twist on standard tacos that you will remember for months.
You’ll definitely find yourself craving the flavor of these tacos down the line, so make sure to be ready to make more!
This recipe shows you how you can create a perfect cucumber flavor pico de gallo to pair with the meat to really bring out its flavor.
The cucumber adds a great refreshing taste to the tacos, while the inclusion of tomatoes and jalapenos helps to create that familiar warmth you expect from tacos.
2. Greek Flatbread Pizza And Lamb Meatballs
Lamb really is the perfect meat to use to create amazing Greek recipes. If you want to make the absolute most out of ground lamb then this could be the recipe for you.
It manages to blend two different types of food together in a way that is totally unique. The idea of creating a Greek-inspired pizza sounds totally mad, but we were blown away by how well it worked.
The tzatziki sauce that is layered across the bottom of the pizza is incredibly creamy and incredibly refreshing, and this makes it totally perfect to contrast against the saltiness of the olives and the sharpness of the pickled red onion.
3. Lamb Meatloaf With Feta
The best thing about ground lamb is that it can easily be manipulated to create all kinds of different dishes, and one of the very best that you can create is meatloaf.
Meatloaf is a really soft and morish dish that has long been a favorite of dinner tables across the United States.
However, with this recipe, you can create a meatloaf that is full of flavors that you may not otherwise expect from meatloaf, but still has all of the amazing texture you crave!
This recipe combines the ground lamb with plenty of black olives, feta (see also: Roasted Beets With Feta And Balsamic)cheese, and cream to make it super moist and delectable.
The top of the meatloaf is covered with sun-dried tomatoes, which helps to give the whole dish an extra sweetness and a slight acidity to contrast with the savory and meaty flavor!
4. Middle Eastern Curried Lamb Meatballs
Meatballs are a great way to enjoy the flavor of specific meats, and they also help to make meat much easier to cook and serve up.
Ground lamb is the perfect meat to use for making meatballs because it has a perfect texture and a perfect meaty flavor that makes every bite sensational.
But what if you could make that meaty flavor even more incredible?
This recipe shows you how you can use plenty of curry flavoring to not only draw out the flavor of the lamb meatballs, but also how to supplement them to create a full-bodied dish that you will not soon forget!
5. Moroccan Lamb Kofta Eggs Benedict
Kofta is a popular Moroccan food that shares a lot in common with traditional meatballs, but what helps to differentiate them is their use of ingredients like cumin, paprika, and plenty of mint, alongside other ingredients.
This helps to make these lamb koftas so delectable. But this recipe does not stop there! It takes the amazing lamb kofta and tops it off with a delicious eggs benedict, all found atop an English muffin.
This is one of the very best dishes in this recipe, and eating it after we’d cooked it had us feeling like we’d stepped in for an evening at a five-star restaurant!
6. Thai Larb Salad
Ground lamb is totally perfect for use in a salad, and this salad is easily one of the absolute best we’ve ever come across when it comes to including ground lamb in a salad!
Included in this salad are things like cucumber, radishes, cilantro, mint, and even scallions, to create a salad that is very spicy and fiery, and has all of the flavor you want from a salad, but with a slight cooling element to it.
This is another great ground lamb recipe that takes inspiration from Greek cuisine, further proving the amazing potential the meat has in Greek dishes! Try it out for yourself!
7. Moroccan Lamb Chili With Sweet Potatoes
Nothing warms the soul quite like a bowl of classic chili. Chili is noted for its amazing spicy flavors, and its use of natural and amazing ingredients that combine together to create pure culinary wonder.
While most chili recipes tend to make use of ground beef, this recipe instead makes use of ground lamb to create a totally different kind of flavor.
This chili recipe takes inspiration from Moroccan food, as it contains plenty of chickpeas, sweet potatoes, and perfect Moroccan spices to create the perfect flavor of chili.
We loved this recipe because it features a fresh take on a more traditional chili, yet it still had all of the familiar elements that make a chili what it is.
8. Italian Lamb Ragu
This ragu recipe makes use of pappardelle pasta, which is much thicker and wider than most standard pasta. This helps to give the resulting dish a great sense of texture and tactility.
You can easily eat this dish, as the wide pasta can easily pick up the ingredients in the rest of the bowl, including the ground lamb which is generously scattered throughout.
The sauce of this ragu makes use of ingredients like chicken stock, red wine, and plenty of garlic, to create a flavor unlike anything else you have ever tasted.
The flavor has a great sophistication to it, and this helps to make it a sheer delight to eat. It’s great to serve up to guests at a dinner party. So why not try making it today?
9. Freezer-Friendly Shepherd’s Pie
Shepherd’s Pie is one of the best comfort dishes ever created. Even just thinking about it will be enough to conjure up positive images in many people’s minds. The dish is incredibly relaxing, and this is thanks to its incredible mixture of ingredients.
The meat and vegetables are cooked to absolute perfection in a sauce made up of beef stock and cream. It’s so delightful.
Keep in mind that this recipe does state to use ground beef, but you can easily use ground lamb in this recipe. We tried it for ourselves, and we were blown away by how well ground lamb worked in the recipe(see also: Best 9 Ground Venison Recipes That Will Make Your Mouth Water).
The standard shepherd’s pie ingredients helped to elevate the flavor of ground lamb, making the absolute most of its natural flavors.
10. Loaded Greek Fries
Loaded fries are already one of our favorite dishes, precisely because they are so easy to make. Loaded fries are also perfect for sharing amongst family and friends.
However, another one of the things that helps to make loaded fries so great is that there are so many ways to variate the standard loaded fries formula!
One of our favorites is this Greek-inspired variation that makes use of loads of ground lamb, olives, tomatoes, and crumbled feta cheese to create melting loaded fries with a traditional Greek flavor.
To Wrap Up
The great thing about ground lamb is that there are so many ways to use it in recipes, but we believe that these 10 recipes are absolutely the best ways to put it to good use, so try one of them out for yourself!
Frequently Asked Questions
Ground beef and lamb have similar calories and fat content, but ground lamb is much higher in omega-3 fat, which is highly beneficial!
Though lamb does still contain a lot of fat, the fat is anti-inflammatory because it is omega-3 fat!
The unhealthiest type of meat to eat is cured meat because it contains loads of preservatives that can be unhealthy in large quantities.
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